Vienna around 1900 – Art Nouveau and Expressionism


The Art Nouveau movement in Austria at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century took on its own specific shape in various artists' associations.


The Leopold Collection includes works by members of the most important artists' groups from this era:


"Wiener Künstlerhaus" (incl. Albin Egger-Lienz)


"Wiener Secession" (incl. Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Ferdinand Andri,
 Leopold Blauensteiner)


"Wiener Werkstätte" (incl. Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann)


"Hagenbund" (incl. Oskar Laske).


The development of Austrian Expressionism can be traced with most immediacy in works by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. One "lone wolf" evidently remained uninfluenced by the Secessionist models – Richard Gerstl.